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SUCTION MARKS IN NUTRITION CELLS OF A GALL ON LEAVES OF ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS L., CAUSED BY ERIOPHYES MACRORRHYNCHUS TYPICUS NAL.
Author(s) -
Schmeits T. G. J.,
Sassen M. M. A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta botanica neerlandica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0044-5983
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1978.tb01145.x
Subject(s) - acer pseudoplatanus , botany , gall , cell wall , biology
SUMMARY Leaf galls on Acer pseudoplatanus , caused by Eriophyes macrorrhynchus , were investigated in order to demonstrate suction marks in the nutritive tissue. After a special treatment that removed the cell content and the cell wall matrix, small holes with a diameter of approximately 0.35 μm were found in the cellulose skeleton of the cell walls. The holes originate by physical and enzymatical action of the stinging parasite.